Today, MORIBUND RECORDS announces June 22nd as the release date for Hrizg's long-awaited Individualism. Ever aptly titled, Individualism sees this one-man black metal cult perfecting his iron-willed, iron-clad craft, contorting the otherworldly mysticism of ancient black metal to his own isolationist design. Compared to 2011's celebrated Anthems to Decrepitude, Hrizg's Individualism drives at both extremes - classic grimness vs. tense atonality - but arrives at a destination no less sepulchral and dynamic. Enter the realm of Individualism... Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for HRIZG's Individualism
- Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (1:24)
- The Darkness I Witness (3:31)
- No Life After Life (3:25)
- To Leave the Roots Grow... (1:48)
- Night of the Wolf (4:45)
- When the Cryings are for the Weak (4:06)
- The Hall of Falseness and Impurity (4:44)
- The Strong Against the Stronger (2:57)
- From Endless Blackness (4:24)
- With a Crown of Bitterness (5:27)
- The Lament of God (4:53)
A statement from Hrizg mainman Erun-Dagoth reads: "I did Individualism as a call for the inner strength against those ones who crawl through the scene holding the banner of weakness. Hrizg plays black metal for the strongest of the strong!" A video of Erun-Dagoth recording drums for Individualism at Khazad-Dûm Studios can be viewed HERE.